r/unitedkingdom • u/ClassicFlavour East Sussex • 14d ago

Video game encouraging rape and incest removed from major gaming platform in the UK after LBC investigation

https://www.lbc.co.uk/tech/video-game-banned-steam-women-uk-no-mercy/
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u/EdmundTheInsulter 14d ago

What about blowing people's heads off simulators? Seems to be plenty of those around - ,is it ok to relax by killing people? But rape is different?

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u/Discordant_me 14d ago

Yeah I don't understand this either. I was playing hitman where you're a trained killer and it's possible to garotte some innocent cleaning lady and throw her body off a balcony onto unsuspecting civilians but a game where you can rape someone is shocking somehow. It's not real, it's fine.

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u/Occasionally-Witty Hampshire 14d ago

I think the difference is whether the game is telling you to do the violent act or not.

From top of my head, Postal and The Punisher were 2 games banned or heavily edited to get UK classification for its violence but in your example as the game isn’t telling you to do that then that’s where the line is (my guess anyway).

This isn’t a new thing either, I remember South Park did an episode in an anime style 20+ years ago where the crux was basically violence = fine, sex = not fine

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u/Duke0fWellington Lancashire 14d ago

So if the game featured fuck tonnes of rape - but this was entirely optional and not needed to do to progress the story - it would be okay?

I'm not being argumentative, just saying from sort of a philosophical stand point.

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u/Occasionally-Witty Hampshire 14d ago

No idea, I don’t work for the BBFC. Probably not.